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Not one of my rainbows but humorous nevertheless;

So I have been recently getting into the chondros and have a few in my collection now. Unfortunately, I don’t have as many arboreal cages for all of them so I must house some of them together until my new cages arrive. Of course I am not going to hold off on regular maintenance and feeding so I find myself taking a few more bits than I’d like and having to watch them while feeding to make sure that don’t start to fight.

While feeding my canary girl and her Biak boyfriend I kept the cage door open just in case I need to get in there with quickness. A few days ago while feed they where taking there sweet time downing their respective meals. About the time they were both at the tail end of things I got bored and decided they would be fine and I left the room and didn’t what ever I do in the evenings.

The next morning I walked through my snake room to check on everybody and found that I had forgotten to close the cage with my canary and Biak… AHHHH and wouldn’t you know, the Biak had escaped!!!

My wonderful wife who is absolutely terrified of snakes allowed me to keep more than 40 little guys in our spare room after I promised her time and time again that there was no way one could escape. I lied… My only saving grace was that my wife is in Taiwan now visiting her family, lucky me.

Of course I called into work and made up some stupid reason why I wasn’t going to be there on time and begin my search. I have a door sweep for the snake room upon my wife’s request as a just one of the myriad of conditions for having them. So I am pretty well convinced that the snake is still in the room somewhere. I turn the room upside down looking for the snake and he was nowhere to be found. I determine that the door sweep is useless and the snake most be somewhere in the main house. Long story, less long I turning the whole house over trying to find this snake and wouldn’t you know he turns up in the last place I look. Ironically the last place I look is my wife’s closet!!!

John Wiseman

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He just wanted to make friends with your wife!!

Wow, that could have turned out real bad!!! Congrats on finding him outside the "secure" room.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

yeah Dave,

I make light of the story but I was really going crazy. That would have been divorce for me

Lucky me she doesn't know about this forum

Aww, I can't see the pictures! I'm so glad you found him! Shoot, I'd love to come back from vacation and find a snake in my closet!
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~Cynthia

"And in the spring, I shed my skin and it blows away with the changing wind..."

Wow, what a great story! Always sucks to lose a snake, and I know the frantic feeling of turning rooms upside down looking for one... not fun! So glad to hear that you found it... and wow what an ironic place! Good thing your wife was gone!

I can't see the pics though.
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Aubrey Ross

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Here's John's picture:

Very nice looking snake, and glad you found him so soon.

I've done the exact same thing several times... I lost a yearling milksnake for 2 months because of that... and also accidentally fell asleep while waiting for my g/f's ball python to finish a meal, but thankfully he didn't get very far by the time I woke up. She would have freaked out too, just for a very different reason than your wife, I'm sure.

Again, glad it all worked out for you!

-Dustin

Thanks for posting the pic. I have had troubles posting pics in the past and I am wondering if it's a problem with my mac. Unfortunately this forum wont let you delete the post and try again. This time I just got really frustrated with it and gave up.

John

I post to the "Image URL" with the [IMG].. blah blah ..[IMG] thing from photobucket but in the 'preview message' there is never an image. My computer only say 'image' I can't actually tell until I post the message and then if there is a problem it is to late for me to do anything about it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

in the last
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Aubrey Ross

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oops... lets try that again...

In the last img tag you need to put a slash to indicate the end of the address:

[ /img]

The space is so it will show up on here... you would omit the space when using it.
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Aubrey Ross

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Okay, I think I know what may be happening. So down below the Message box when typing your forum post, if you use the Image URL option to paste the picture link, you have to copy and paste the "Direct link" from photobucket, not the "img code".

If you use the Image URL option and use the "img code" from photobucket, you're using the same code twice, basically telling it "look at this picture of look at this picture," and it gets confused.

Another way to include pictures in your post is to paste the "img code" from photobucket into the Message box itself, and this way you can put multiple pictures along with text above/below the pictures. The only downside to this, however, is that kingsnake will not mark the post as having an image inside because you didn't use the Image URL option.

Hopefully that all makes sense. Basically "img code" only works in the Message box, "Direct link" only works in the Image URL box. It can be a bit confusing, I know..

-Dustin

Aubrey, Dustin... here goes

here is "maybe" a picture of my eclipsed phase brb posted inside the message box

Here is "maybe" a picture of my bullseye phase brb posted using the 'Link URL'
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